II. a) You are about to participate in an auction. You will each have $300 to spend purchasing jobs that you are interested in.

Below is the list that contains only job descriptions and you will have 10 minutes to read over and decide which jobs you are interested in buying and how high you would be willing to bid on jobs you want. Bids can begin at $10 and go up from there until someone outbids all of the others and wins the job. The amount you are willing to bid should reflect how important getting that job is to you. You may bid on as many jobs as you can afford or you can put all your money into just one job. Remember that you will be competing against each other for these jobs:

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b) At the end of the auction we will go through the sheet of job descriptions and you will be told what job you have bought.

These are the questions to consider:

· What was it about the description of the job that made you want to buy it?